Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

This book investigates how De Quincey's writing was shaped by his work as a translator. Drawing on a wide range of materials and readings, it trace...

Godwin and the Book explores a network of controversies concerning the relationship of media form to social futurity in Romantic-period Britain thr...

This book is the first extensive study of seventeen works of short fiction by one of Scotland's most influential writers of all time. It examines t...

Volume 25 of 16501850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era investigates the local textures that make up the whole cloth of the...

At 250, Walter Scott points toward our possible futures. Scott, although we necessarily look on his times as past, of course experienced them as pr...

Who would have expected Jane Austen to be up-to-date on gun technology or Virginia Woolf to recognise the class politics of plumbing?Austen and Woo...

Kate Chopin on pot smoking. Pauline Hopkins on alchemy and the undead. Sui Sin Far on cross-dressing. Emma Lazarus and Angelina Weld Grimke on lesb...

Demonstrates how the textual output of settler emigration shapes the nineteenth-century literary and artistic imaginationNineteenth-Century Settler...

In Her Own Voice examines the literary history of womens nonfiction writing through studies of individual writers, their works, and their careers. ...

Explores the interconnected creative partnerships of the Wattses and De Morgans Victorian artists, writers and suffragistsThis is the first book d...

Nathaniel Hawthorne helped to establish and validate American literature by creating a mythology of America's origins that features prophetic theme...

The Oxford Dickens edition of Pictures from Italy puts the spotlight on Dickens's 'little book' describing his travels through Italy in 1844 and 18...

Explores how nineteenth-century novels analysed the formal and social workings of newsArgues that the concept of fake news was central to the devel...

The first extensive analysis of the translation, publication and critical reception of Alexander von Humboldt's writings in nineteenth-century Brit...

An overview of the cultural transmission of the Arabian Nights within nineteenth-century BritainAn overview of the cultural transmission of the Ara...

Explores Woolf's treatment of the relationship between self and world from an existential-phenomenological perspective Breaking fresh ground in Woo...

An overview of the cultural transmission of the Arabian Nights within nineteenth-century BritainAn overview of the cultural transmission of the Ara...

A transnational approach to Risorgimento culture's contentious and exhilarating nation-building enterpriseKey FeaturesRe-imagines the parameters an...

Uncovering Wordsworth's influence on TennysonThis book explores Tennyson's poetic relationship with Wordsworth through a close analysis of Tennyson...

Reads Victorian literature and science as artful practices that surpass the theories and discourses supposed to contain themWhat is the connection ...

Examines representations of the actress in Victorian novels and theatresThis book analyses how Victorian novels and plays used the actress, a signi...

First scholarly edition of a bestselling historical novelExplores thesocio-political themes of the novel and deemed as relevant today as they were ...

Explores the politics of nineteenth-century British realismOffers a new theory of institutions grounded in temporalityOutlines a transnational theo...

Redrawing the conventional map of Victorian PoeticsVictorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical offers an alternative history of Vic...

Re-establishes the enduring presence and value of classical literature in the Romantic eraThe Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age reve...

Charts the origins and development of the little magazine genre in the Victorian periodFed up with the commercial and moral restrictions of the mai...

Reflections on the Bicentenary of the 1819 Massacre of Reformers in ManchesterTwo hundred years after the massacre of protestors in Manchester, kno...

Traces and measures the material impact of Dickens' fiction in London's built environmentDickens and Demolition examines how tropes, characters, or...

Examining the transatlantic writings and professional careers of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, this book explores the impact of literary,...

This volume is a critical edition of a Victorian scrapbook, composed of cuttings from advertising images from the 1880's. These images are arranged...

This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861...

The novels of Henry James are filled with ghosts, but most of them escape dramatic treatment. These elusive specters are the voices of precursors t...

An Open Access edition of this book will be available on publication on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Engaging with...

This collection explores the multifaceted relationship between letters and bodies in the long eighteenth century, featuring a broad selection of wo...

Cervantes now mythical character of Don Quixote began as a far different figure than the altruistic righter of wrongs we know today. The transforma...

First published in 1971, Professor Knights book draws analytic attention to poets including Tennyson, Masefield, and Brooke, who are shown to hold ...

This book reconstructs the history of print and publishing in colonial Bengal by tracing the unexpected journey of Bharat Chandras Bidyasundar, the...

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). Polish born, learnt English from scratch when he arrived in Britain. Writings include: Heart of Darkness, The Secret Age...

In her study of the unsuccessful nineteenth-century emigrant, Tamara S. Wagner argues that failed emigration and return drive nineteenth-century wr...

From the 1750s to the 1830s, numerous British intellectuals, novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, translators, educationalists, politicians, b...

In this, the first book-length study of astronomy in Hardy's writing, historian of science and literary scholar Pamela Gossin brings the analytical...

A valued icon of British manhood, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has been the subject of numerous biographies since his death in 1930. All his biographers ...

Why were the Victorians more fascinated with secrecy than people of other periods? What is the function of secrets in Victorian fiction and in the ...

Friendship has always been a universal category of human relationships and an influential motif in literature, but it is rarely discussed as a them...

Race Matters, Animal Matters challenges one of the grand narratives of African American studies: that African Americans rejected racist association...

This study focuses on Dickens's response to questions of identity, conduct, and social organization that emerged in an era of major cultural unsett...